Position: Environmental Health & Safety Manager

Remington Park

JOB DESCRIPTION

Department: Safety and Compliance

Reports to:Director of Human Resources

FLSA Status:Full Time Salary-Exempt

QUALIFICATIONS:

10 years of progressive health and safety experience, including at least five (5) years of corporate level experience with a company with multiple locations.
B.S. in Occupational Safety and Health or related field required, MS Preferred.
Professional certification health and safety desirable.
Advance knowledge and understanding of existing OSHA, laws required.
Strong analytical skills to evaluate facility safety awareness and behaviors.
Must be able to evaluate performance metrics and establish the necessary plans to drive continuous improvement.
Must be able to translate goals and objectives in to actionable plans.
Working knowledge of safe work practices and experience in conducting accident investigation.
Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated proficiency building and maintaining positive professional relationships.
High degree of business acumen and decisiveness required.
Must be able to work independently and with teams.
Strong presentation, public speaking and facilitation skills.
Must have the ability to work in a fast pace environment and work with multiple locations.
Strong organizational skills are required.
Must be willing to travel extensively (50%+ may be expected).
Excellent technical and analytical skills in general safety, and loss prevention.
Strong computer skills to include effective working knowledge of Microsoft Office Products. Knowledge of Human Resources Information Systems.
Strong written and oral communication skills required.
Ability to solve problems and deal with a variety of situations where only limited standardization exists.
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITES:

Responsible for ensuring the highest level of operational safety and asset protection across the company, including oversight of the environmental health and safety program to reduce and control RP and LSP's exposures to injury and accident risks, while ensuring operational regulatory compliance with all appropriate state and federal regulations.
Direct and control the safety and health function for organization to reduce safety rates, financial losses, and eliminate occupational injuries and illnesses.
Lead the development of enterprise-wide strategies for the proactive control of safety and the development and implementation of strategic business plans for the department to include but not limited to:
Provide technical safety, health support and information to all business units.
Identify company safety training needs; develop and coordinate safety training programs.
Develop annual safety and health goals.
Collaborate with peers in the organization to provide global support to ensure compliance with all applicable health and safety, environmental, and workers compensation regulations while focusing on the improvement of key performance indicators.
Conduct assessment (gap analysis) of workers’ compensation exposures; design and implement loss prevention, safety programs to prevent or reduce employee injury exposures and costs. Establish program in compliance with RP and LSP's Loss Control program guidelines and expectations. Conduct comprehensive root cause analyses and monitor completion of corrective action plan. Communicate and provide timely trend analysis and defined action plans to address identified issues. Monitor claim management activities of TPA; make recommendations to further mitigate claim expenses; monitor reserve adequacy for assigned facility claims. Manage work comp performance program (costs allocated to facilities); timely and accurate management of performance program reports as well as Key Prevention Metrics.
Drive claim strategy/execution through effective communication and by endorsing a Safety First mindset.
Develop a thorough understanding of each claim by planning and conducting investigations in order to accurately determine potential liability and damages, as well as the potential for subrogation, then refers claims to the subrogation group as appropriate.
Identifyy key issues with respect to the circumstances surrounding any incident/injury and advice appropriate members of management and insurer of potential resolution strategies and/or concerns.
Communicate with Team Members, Risk Management, and insurer to close claims in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
Review claims regularly with the Director of Corporate Human Resources and insurance teams as required.
Ensure business units compliance with federal, state and local law enforcement regulatory agency.
Act as a liaison between Senior Management, Facility Management and Team Member on matters relating to safety and health.
Plan and set health and safety objectives and goals to be utilized by corporate and business units.
Oversee the reporting mechanisms for injuries, workers’ compensation, serious incidents, and environmental releases ensuring compatibility with company objectives.
Analyze expenditures, financial and operation reports to determine requirements for increasing safety and communicate recommendation to Senior Management.
Improve the health and safety standards and practices by creating programs to improve metrics.
Further a culture of safety across the organization so that safety and environmental health becomes second nature for all our Team Members.
Develop and monitor departmental budget.
Direct audit team reviews and provide direction while conducting physical audits. Review adherence to audit action plan schedules resulting from audits.
Benchmark and develop leading edge metrics, auditing tools and reporting methods for all business units.
Ensure accurate reporting, develop and provide appropriate reports to executive leadership.
Monitor all occupational incidents and develop metrics that will identify root causes, implement effective risk control methods and reporting techniques.
Conductorganizational tours relating to Safety and Environmental Compliance.
Responsible for assuring deficiencies related to inspections are answered in a timely manner and ensure countermeasures are implemented to meet inspection recommendations.
Liaison between State, Local and Federal agencies relating to Safety and Environmental issues and the Company.
Key person responsible for Insurance and regulatory audits. Reporting audit deficiency, ensuring their timely response. Developing countermeasures to deficiency as well as the implementation of countermeasures.
Ensure Safety and Environmental Policies meet or exceed regulatory Compliance and are reviewed and updated as needed.
Responsible for assuring OSHA training requirements are met.
Provide safety training during new hire orientation.
Coordinate with Insurance Companies regarding Workers' Compensation and Liability claims.
All other duties as assigned.

CORE COMPETENCIES & EQUIPMENT KNOWLEDGE:

Attention to Detail: Able to follow detailed procedures and ensure accuracy in documentation and data; carefully monitor processes; concentrate on routine work details and organize and maintain a system of records.
Communication: Able to clearly present information through the spoken or written word; read and interpret complex information; talk with customers or employees; listen well.
Continuous Learning: Able to stay informed of current industry trends; learn and apply new concepts and demonstrate career self reliance; identify own areas of opportunity and set and monitor self-development goals.
Willingness to Serve: Able to demonstrate a high level of service delivery to do what is necessary to ensure customer satisfaction; deal with service failures and prioritize customer needs.
Flexibility: Able to remain open-minded and change opinions on the basis of new information; perform a wide variety of tasks and change focus quickly as demands change; manage transitions effectively from task to task; adapt to varying customer needs.
Initiative: Able to bring about great result from ordinary circumstances; prepare for problems or opportunities in advance; transform leads into productive business outcomes; undertake additional responsibilities and respond to situations as they arise without supervision.
Quality: Able to maintain high standards despite pressing deadlines; establish high standards and measures; do work right the first time and inspect materials for flaws; test new methods thoroughly; reinforce excellence as a fundamental priority.
Integrity: Able to be tactful, maintain confidences, and foster an ethical work environment; prevent inappropriate behavior by coworkers; give proper credit to others; handle all situations honestly.
Respect: Able to adapt behavior to others’ styles, interact with people who have different values, culture, or backgrounds, be of service to difficult people, optimize the benefits of having a diverse workforce. Able to develop rapport with others and recognize their concerns and feelings; build and maintain long-term associations based on trust; help others.
Policies, Process, Procedures: Able to act in accordance with established guidelines; follow standard procedures in crisis situations; communicate and enforce organizational policies and procedures; recognize and constructively conform to written rules or practices.
Team Centered- Able to share due credit with coworkers; display enthusiasm and promote a friendly group working environment; work closely with other departments as necessary; support group decisions and solicit opinions from coworkers; display team spirit.
Equipment Knowledge-Able to operate various types of office equipment including, but not limited to; personal computers, printers, 10 key adding machines, copy machines, FAX machines, and telephone, and photo identification systems.

SAFETY RESPONSIBILITES:

Personal Protective Equipment - OSHA requires that each supervisor perform an assessment of the hazards of their work area to determine the type of protective equipment needed. This review must be documented and given to their immediate supervisor.

Employee Training - Supervisors are responsible to assure that each new team member, whether temporary or permanent, receives appropriate safety training at the start of employment. Supervisors should use their department specific safety training as the means for training new employees. This training, once completed and signed, should be given to Human Resources to be maintained in the team member's personnel file. The written Safety Plan, required for all work areas where hazardous materials or equipment are used, also serves as the basis for employee safety training.

Self Inspections - Each supervisor is required to conduct regular inspections of their work area. As a minimum, an annual inspection of the work area using the Supervisor's Safety Inspection Checklist is required for each supervisor required to complete a safety plan. The most recent Supervisor's Safety Inspection Checklist must be retained with the supervisor's copy of the safety plan in the work area.

Corrective Action Closure - Supervisors must assure that corrective action is taken and completed on deficiencies noted through inspections conducted using the Supervisor’s Safety Inspection Checklist, their own self inspections, or resulting from investigations of accidents and incidents. In some cases, it will be necessary to follow up on corrective action requests submitted. Supervisor must be persistent in obtaining closure on corrective action requests.

Team Member Involvement - Supervisors should involve their team members in their accident prevention activities. Team member observation and feedback to correct at-risk behaviors of coworkers and praise safe behaviors is an effective and recommended technique. Teams of employees and peers for investigating accidents and incidents and to perform workplace inspections are also recommended.

Accident and Injury Reporting - It is the supervisor's responsibility to report all accidents or injuries that occur to their team members while at work. Each supervisor must ensure that any team member who is injured while at work and who requires medical attention above basic first aid is sent to McBride for evaluation.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Employee may work in close proximity to horses.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to risks associated with travel between buildings and back and forth to other areas as may be required due to business demands. The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, including second-hand environmental smoke. The employee may be exposed to the risks associated in attempting to resolve issues with extremely irate or difficult guests or staff members. The noise level in the work environment varies from light to moderate.

REQUIRED WORK CARDS/LICENSES/CERTIFICATES:

Key Employee Gaming LicenseOklahoma Horse Racing Commission License CPR Certificate

ABLE Commission LicenseOklahomaState Drivers License CLEET Certificate

GENERAL SIGN-OFF:

The employee is expected to adhere to all company policies and applicable federal/state/local regulations.

I have read, received a copy of and understand it is my responsibility to adhere to and comply with the elements of this job description.

Employee Signature: Date:

Human Resources Signature: Date: